US Air Force Deserter Found After Disappearing For 35 Years

US Air Force Office of Special Investigations

Ellis Copeland
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14 June, 2018, 00:01

But it turns out, Tim is actually William Howard Hughes Jr. - an Air Force captain who disappeared in New Mexico 35 years ago while working on classified planning and analysis of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation surveillance systems during the Cold War.

Pictured, William Howard Hughes Jr.in 1983.William Howard Hughes Jr. why did he disappear and where did he go?

Hughes had been involved in classified planning and analysis of NATO's control, command and communications surveillance systems during the Cold War.

Hughes was supposed to travel to the Netherlands in July 1983 to work with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation officers on the operations of AWACS electronic surveillance planes.

He had been scheduled to return to the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 1.

Later in 1986, a Los Angeles Times article also speculated that Hughes had defected to the Soviet Union.

He told authorities after his capture Wednesday that he was depressed about being in the Air Force and made a decision to leave, saying he created a fake identity and lived in California since he vanished in 1983. The Air Force didn't say where in California Hughes had lived under the O'Bierne name, or what charges he faces.

Capt Hughes is now being held at Travis Air Force Base in California, a statement from the USAF's office of special investigations said. The Air Force officially declared him deserted in December 1983.

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